Access to the hill from the Dufftown side is now a graded track all the way, the final pull is a bit of a puffer but there are numerous places on, and around, the summit to set up and get some shelter.

[quote=“MW0WML, post:47, topic:10540”]It was, shall we say, quite hard work![/quote]Forty-mumble years ago, when I was somewhat shorter and skinnier, we had a slide-show at school about climbing it from Loitokitok, back in the days when that border was open enough for folk to climb from there. I remember the slideshow presenter putting up a photo of a bloke running downhill, and telling us “We’d met him at the base the previous evening. He’d headed up the mountain very early on a moonlit morning. We’d started our climb at sunrise. This slide was take in as we were climbing in the afternoon. We met him on his way down from the summit.” A tall story? Who knows…

You forgot to say that the information has to be logged live and logs prepared after the activation will not accepted. Battery powered chisels are available for those who are likely to encounter pile ups on 7MHz SSB or CW. I think Screwfix has them in stock… other retailers are available.